Mount Stenhouse．Ling Kok Shan

Route
Sok Kwu Wan>Lo So Shing>Mount Stenhouse>Yam Ling Au>Ling Kok Shan>Mo Tat Wan

Recommendation
★★★☆☆

Difficulty
★★★★☆

Length
8 KM

Duration
4.5 hours

Support
Shops and Restaurants at Sok Kwu Wan (Start Point / End Point)
Shops and Restaurants at Mo Tat Wan (End Point)

Transport
Start Point
Ferry (Link Click Here), alighting at Sok Kwu Wan
End Point
Ferry (Link Click Here) Mo Tat to Aberdeen
Ferry (Link Click Here), Sok Kwu Wan to central

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Elevation (reference only)

Mount Stenhouse (Shan Tei Tong) is the highest peak on the Lamma Island. Mount Stenhouse is not a friendly hiking trail, no official hiking trail provided for the Mount Stenhouse and the nearby area (such as Shum Wan etc.), the paths are rugged with dense grasses and scrubs, also the area of Mount Stenhouse is very large, it has a high possibility to get lost, it is suggested to walk accompanied with experienced hikers.

Turn right to Yung Shue Wan after getting off at Sok Kwu Wan

Pass the restaurants of Sok Kwu Wan

The staircase nearby the Tin hau Temple is the most popular route to Mount Stenhouse
In order to avoid backtrack, it would choose to walk to Mount Stenhouse from Lo So Shing, and thus keep walking to Yung Shue Wan

Kamikaze Cave
During World War II, it was planned to launch suicide attack by Japanese

Turn right to Lo So Shing Village

Follow the sign to Lo So Shing Beach

Pass the Lo So Shing Public Toilet

Turn left to Mount Stenhouse
Or turn right to visit the Lo So Shing Beach first

Lo So Shing Beach, backtrack afterward

The entrance of Mount Stenhouse places at the end of the concrete road

Overlooking Lo So Shing Beach

Walk toward the peak of Mount Stenhouse

There are some forks before the summit, it walked to the right side in this blog

Path to summit

Overlooking the north of Lamma Island

The area of Sham Wan

The summit of Mount Stenhouse, with a height of 353 meters

Turn right at this fork to Yam Ling Au

Overlooking Ling Kok Shan

There are many interesting rocks around Mount Stenhouse
It looks like the Pac-Man

The Penis Rock, the most famous rock of Mount Stenhouse

It will be concrete road after the pavilion

Yam Ling Au, it can go down to Tin Yau Temple of Sok Kwu Wan
It will walk to Ling Kok Shan in this blog

There are many interesting rock around Ling Kok Shan

Looking back the Mount Stenhouse

The summit of Ling Kok Shan, with a height of 250 meters

Shek Pai Wan

Descend to country trail, turn left to Mo Tat Wan

You can choose Mo Tat Wan or Sok Kwu Wan as the end point, it depends on the transportation, the destination of the ferry at Mo Tat is Aberdeen, the destination of ferry at Sok Kwu Wan is Central
It would end the trail at Mo Tat Wan in this blog

Come to an end at Mo Tat Wan, there are some restaurants to take an end break